Clinical significance of newly recognized coryneform bacteria

Reviews and Research in Medical Microbiology

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 55-68

  Martínez Martínez, Luis ^a,b  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO VIRGEN MACARENA   (Spain)

^b School of Medicine   (Spain)

Author keywords

Actinomyces; Brevibacterium; Coryneform bacteria; New pathogens; Rhodococcus; Rothia; Turicella

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; ERYTHROMYCIN; GLYCOPEPTIDE; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; RIFAMPICIN; TETRACYCLINE;

ACTINOMYCES; ACTINOMYCETALES; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BREVIBACTERIUM; CORYNEBACTERIUM DIPHTHERIAE; CORYNEBACTERIUM UREALYTICUM; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; HUMAN; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; INTENSIVE CARE; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RHODOCOCCUS; SURVIVAL RATE; SYSTEMIC DISEASE; TAXONOMY; USSR;

EID: 0031973739     PISSN: 0954139X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00013542-199801000-00007     Document Type: Review

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